SOCCER PLAYER

Héctor Castro

1904 - 1960

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Agustín Héctor Castro Rodríguez (29 November 1904 – 15 September 1960) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He scored Uruguay's first ever goal in a World Cup against Peru at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 a tournament they would go on to win. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Héctor Castro is the 261st most popular soccer player (down from 187th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 12th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

Héctor Castro is most famous for being a Mexican singer and actor who is most known for his roles in the telenovelas "El abuelo y yo" and "El privilegio de amar".

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Héctor Castro ranks 261 out of 21,273. Before him are Emilio Butragueño, Luis Galván, Takehiko Kawanishi, Uichiro Hatta, Masao Nozawa, and Son Heung-min. After him are Udo Lattek, Osamu Yamaji, Harry Kane, Gaetano Scirea, Andoni Zubizarreta, and René van de Kerkhof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Héctor Castro ranks 49. Before him are Joseph Campbell, John Gielgud, George Balanchine, Charles J. Pedersen, Karl Rahner, and Tadao Takayama. After him are Clifford D. Simak, Otto Robert Frisch, František Plánička, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Serge Lifar, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Among people deceased in 1960, Héctor Castro ranks 28. Before him are J. L. Austin, Ana Pauker, Clara Haskil, August Kopff, Henri Guisan, and Victor Sjöström. After him are Inejiro Asanuma, Felix Kersten, Said Nursî, Friedrich Adler, Soghomon Tehlirian, and Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Héctor Castro ranks 13 out of 444. Before him are Alcides Ghiggia (1926), José Nasazzi (1901), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), Héctor Scarone (1898), Óscar Tabárez (1947), and José Gervasio Artigas (1764). After him are Enrique Ballestrero (1905), Diego Forlán (1979), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Pedro Petrone (1905), Obdulio Varela (1917), and Lucía Topolansky (1944).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Héctor Castro ranks 7. Before him are José Leandro Andrade (1901), Luis Suárez (1987), Alcides Ghiggia (1926), José Nasazzi (1901), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), and Héctor Scarone (1898). After him are Enrique Ballestrero (1905), Diego Forlán (1979), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Pedro Petrone (1905), Obdulio Varela (1917), and José Santamaría (1929).

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